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Question 1: What did Maria Sybilla Merian found?

a shop
a painting school
a factory

Question 2: Where was Maria Sibylla Merian born?

in Nürnberg
in Frankfurt
in Amsterdam

Question  3: When did Maria Sibylla Merian die?

1617
1717
1895

Question 4 : What did Maria Sibylla Merian research?

The transformation from cocoon to butterfly
The transformation from chicken to hen
The transformation from bud to leaf

Question 5: What was the name of Maria Sibylla Merian's first book?

The school of drawing
The wonderful transformation of the caterpillar and miraculous flower food
The cockchafer

Question 6: How old was  Maria Sibylla Merian when she went to  Surinam, known today as Guayna?

52 years old
65 years old
72 years old

Question 7:When did Maria Sibylla Merian return to Frankfurt with her daughters?

1650
1680
1682

Question 8: Why did  Maria Sibylla return to Frankfurt ?

in order to open a shop
in order to look after her widowed mother
in order to get rid of  her husband

Question 9: What is the meaning of "De generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum surinamensium?"

The transformation of the generations in surinamian sectors
Of the reproduction and the transformation of insects in Surinam
The cleverness of  insects made out of phosphor

Question 10: What did  Maria Sibylla Merian examine with great patience?

the development from tadpoles to frogs
the development from calves to cows
the development from caterpillar to butterfly

Question 11: Which organisation did Maria Sibylla Merian join in the Netherlands?

the Diligent Cleaning Ladies
the Ladies of Refinement
the Labadists

Question 12: With whom did  Maria Sibylla Merian undertake the dangerous ship voyage?

with her daughter Dorothea
with her daughter Hildegardis
with her daughter Agathe

Question 13: Where was Maria Sibylla Merian born?

She was born in Tokyo in 1653
She was born in Russia in 1699
She was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1647
She was born in Würzburg on the day before Christ

Question 14: What was Maria Sibylla Merian's main work ?

The development from caterpillar to butterflies
The colour flower book
De generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum surinamensium

Question 15: Why did  Maria Sibylla Merian travel to Surinam which is today called Guayana ?

because she wanted to visit her mother
in order to explore the fauna and flora of this region
to go on an expedition

Question 16: Where did Maria Sibylla Merian collect and examine numerous unknown plants and animals with her daughter ?

in the desert
in the city
in the rain forest

Question 17: What did  Maria Sibylla Merian publish?

the wonderful metamorphosis of the caterpillar and unusual flower food
a richly illustrated book
colour flower pattern

Question 18: Whom did  Maria Sibylla Merian split up with?

with Helmut Kohl
with Andreas Graff
with Arnold Schwarzenegger
with Andreas Griff

Question 19: What did Maria and her daughter try when they stayed with the native population?

apples, bananas and cherries
grapefruit, peaches and coconuts
pineapple, bananas, and grapefruit
pineapple, apricots and cherries

Question 20: Why did  Maria Sibylla have to return early from  Surinam ?

 because her mother had fallen ill
because her daughter had died
because she had caught Malaria
because the Indians sent her away
because her daughter Dorothea was homesick

Question 21:What did Maria Sibylla Merian do for a living?

she was a painter
she was a copper engraver
she was an entomologist
she was a taylor

Question 22: Where did Maria Sibylla Merian open her school of painting?

in Bejwerwijk (Holland)
in Nürnberg
in Frankfurt

Question 23: Which animals were named after Maria Sibylla Merian ?

six frogs and one hare?
six plants, nine butterflies, two types of beatle?
two birds, three tortoises ?

Question 24: What was the name of Maria Sibylla Merian's husband?

Johann Graff
Andreas Graff
Leonardo DiCaprio

Question 25: What did Maria Sibylla Merian's daughters do after her death?

they continued painting flowers
they continued dyeing fabric
they continued their research on insects

Question 26: Who discovered that butterflies developed from caterpillars?

Albert Einstein
Maria Sibylla Merian
Michael Jackson
Liselotte Pulver
Klara Schumann

Question 27: Which disease did Maria Sibylla Merian catch in Surinam?

a cold
Aids
malaria
small pox
cancer

Question 28: What did Maria Sibylla Merian collect in Surinam ?

recipes
recipes and prescriptions
instructions on how to produce printing ink for book printing

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